THE BG NEWS
NEW TWIST ON TWISTED Pulse reporter Zachary Ferguson reviews the horror movie “It Follows,” which he says has an 80’s horror feel while putting a fresh spin on old tropes. Read the review on Page 3.
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Friday, April 17, 2015
VOLUME 94, ISSUE 89
Men’s basketball coach announced
Former Falcon Michael Huger to be introduced Friday By Cameron Teague Robinson Editor-in-Chief
The two-week wait for the new men’s head basketball coach ended Thursday morning, as the University announced it will hire former Falcon Michael Huger. Huger signed a six-year, $365,000 yearly contract and will be introduced at Friday’s noon press conference. Huger was the assistant coach and defensive coordinator at the University of Miami, under head coach Jim Larranga. Huger played for Larranga at BG from 1989-1993, helping the Falcons to a pair of National Invitational Tournament appearances. Including his four years at Miami, Huger brings 10 seasons of collegiate coaching experience to a Falcon team that finished 21-12 this past season and is losing four seniors and three of their four leading scorers. During his time at Miami he helped them win 91 games, including a program record 29 wins in the 2012-2013 season. In that season the Hurricanes finished 29-7 earning a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament and a Sweet 16 berth. While he was the team’s defensive coordinator, Miami was ranked within the top 50 nationally in scoring defense [11] and field goal defense [39] in the 2013-2014 season. Prior to his time at Miami, Huger spent four seasons at George Mason, where helped lead the Patriots to the postseason every year, including NCAA berths in 2008 and 2011. He began his coaching career at Longwood University for two
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Keep it Flowing helps to collect feminine items for low income places By Natasha Ivery Reporter
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hen most women have a menstrual cycle, they can easily go to their nearest retail store and pick up feminine items to fit their needs and
move along. A lot of people don’t realize that there are women all around the country who don’t have that luxury. A program at the University aims to combat this issue. Keep it Flowing is a project sponsored by the Women’s Center on campus to help collect feminine items such as pads and tampons to donate to places where the need for feminine resources is dire. Mary Krueger, director of the Women’s Center, said the project was born after realizing that women in shelters and on the street were in need of feminine products. “Keep It Flowing was started by the Women’s Center and is a brand new initiative, quite new,” Krueger said. “It’s a community service initia-
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WORDS FROM A SURVIVOR
Performance highlights women in LGBTQ+ community By Natasha Ivory Reporter
HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR Rene Lichtman, speaks about his experience hidden as a child during the Holocaust in France.
BG’S CONFIDENCE SOARING The Bowling Green baseball team is using team baseball and elevated confidence to sustain its recent stretch of wins. Falcons looking to win their third straight MAC series. | PAGE 6
ERIC BURGASSER | THE BG NEWS
In the LBGTQ+ community, there are a lot of different terms, identities and genders. Sometimes, people within that community feel ignored and not seen. A recent performance study highlighting that invisibility helped give students a way to be seen and heard within the LGBTQ community. Tiffany Suscheck, senior at the University, presented “Can You See Me Now: A Performance Study of Femme Invisibility” in the Women’s Center on Wednesday, April 15. She aimed to shed light on femme invisibility within the community through performances of four conversations she has had with other women who identify as femme. “I did this project because I wanted to reach out and see if other people were feeling what I felt,” Suscheck said. Suscheck began by introducing
EMBRACING DIFFERENCES Columnist Jason McIntyre talks about the importance of embracing who you are. He says that suppressing your differences will only lead to suffering. | PAGE 5
“I did this project because I wanted to reach out and see if other people were feeling what I felt.” Tiffany Suscheck | Senior
herself and the presentation’s concept. She defined femme: a woman who is gay, but presents herself in a very feminine manner. “I feel that it’s super important that I stand up and say, I’m femme, I’m gay, I’m important and I matter,” Suscheck said. Suscheck described how she figured out she was gay two years ago. She was dating a guy at the time and “it hit her like a ton of gay bricks.” She broke up with him and began her transition, but never felt
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IF YOU COULD CREATE A MAJOR WHAT WOULD IT BE AND WHY? “A cat or dog trainer because it would be hands on and you’d be happy all the time.” Adriana Brown Freshman, Graphic Design
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